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Date:      Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:31 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help me
Message-ID:  <43B69CD3.8070303@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550512310641m56d47051xf0913ba1283369ec@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d7313d210512301313o4b0b0c1ex1f395570ff819f8f@mail.gmail.com> <dp4cjr$v2b$1@sea.gmane.org> <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> <5ceb5d550512310641m56d47051xf0913ba1283369ec@mail.gmail.com>

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Daniel A. wrote:
> I think it's kinda sad that there is not a standartized way of
> versioning software, across the whole OSS community.

Yes, well, not everyone behaves the same way or has the same preferences.  The 
porter's handbook has a discussion of the different version naming conventions, 
most of which can be understood by the port system makefiles (see the end):

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html

-- 
-Chuck



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